Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-13
miscellaneous Items.


Kemper, in St Louis, was damaged by fire
Ia few days ago to the extent CT $4,000.
Hon. Lucius Salisbury, Of Charlton
County, is the oldest member Of the House.
He served his first term in 1862, and has
since been elected eight times.
There is considerable talk about intro
ducng d bill authorizing a fourth State
normal school. The move comes from
Southwest Missouri, and should it prove
successful Carthage will expect the insti-
tuition.
Governor M2rmaduke has granted res
pite to James y Payton. sentenced to be
hanged in Christian County on the 18th, to
March IS.
Milton Tootle. one of the leading citizens
Of Western Missouri. died at st. Joseph
few days ago from paralysis, at the age OF
sixty-four. He had nearly three million
dollars invested in cattle ranches and dry
goods stores.
Adam Ottman pleaded guilty in the St.
Louis Criminal Court to manslaughter
and was sent to the penitentiary for four
wears. He killed August TschofTen last
July.
Truman VI. Post, D. D., the father OF
Congregationalism in Missouri. died at
his residence in st. Louis few days ago,
aged seventy-six years.
The establishment of the Crown Vinegar
and Preserving works II st. Louis was bad
IL damaged b. fire few nights ago.
jefferson City is now Illuminated with
electricity. This is Only one of the many
improvements made since the last session.
The electric light plant is a home enter
prise, owned principally by w. W. Wag-
ncr and J. c. Fisher.
\ coroner's jury at Kansas City held
Maggie Reed, a colored woman of Hire
pute. for the murder of Morris Green.
colored newsboy, aged fourteen, whom
she stabbed fatally in quarrel over
handkerchief. d few evenings since.
The receipts into the State Treasury
through the Office of the Secretary Of
State for the years 1855 and 1856 are as
follows: Tax on corporations created in
1885. $34, $50; tax on corporations in 1886.
&I3.345: tax on notares in 1888, s.. rs: tax
on notaries in 1886, 500; fees, 1885. 3, ST;
fees, 1886 IS. :356. Total for two years, S94,
763
William Kennedy, who was released
from the penitentiary at Jefferson City a
few Gays ago, returned home to st. Louis.
and within three hours of his arrival
there was in custody for burglary, being
taken red-handed.
The rivers are bridged with ice.
During the past two years there have
been Incorporated in the State 564 manu-
1acJUrlng ana business companies. ID
banks; SO building and loan associations;
Isl benevolent and religious associations;
81 railroad companies: 8 telephone COM
panies; 1 insurance company, and trust
companies.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, wife of one of the
Chicago Anarchists was in St Louis re-
Gently. endeavoring to fire the Sociallstic
heart, and advertised meeting at Mer-
camille Library Hall. The audience did
not Inaterializo, however. and Lucy
'1fcI3ed her tent like the Arab, and silent
~ stole away"
The Governor has announced that he will
not pardon Emmett King.
Mrs. Celena E. Shannon committed sui
eide in St. Louis few days ago, repairing
to the cellar Of her dwelling to do the
deed, and when her remains were found
big black cat was drinking the blood that
had flowed from an ugly cash she had
made in her throat
Conrad Rnnger, German, forty years
of age, and single. employed as a carpen-
ter at the Anheuser-Busch brewery, in st.
Louis, was almost instantly killed few
days ago while at work on one Of the COM
pany's new ice-houses. In some unac-
countable manner two beams fell upon
him, crushing his head in frightful man
ner.
BY a recent election Jefferson City de-
cided tn become city Of the third class.